TR: A PNW Summer – Part 3

By: Sam
September 10, 2011 12:00 pm | Category: Full Trip Report, General Interest | Permalink

This is the third and final installment of my three part TR on my summer in the PNW. Hope you enjoyed! (Click the photo for the TR)


TR: A PNW Summer – Part 2

By: Sam
September 8, 2011 9:00 pm | Category: Full Trip Report, General Interest, Skiing | Permalink

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Part two of my adventures in the PNW this summer. Check it out! (click the photo for more)


TR: A PNW Summer – Part 1

By: Sam
September 6, 2011 8:02 pm | Category: Full Trip Report, General Interest, Skiing | Permalink


Click the photo for the full TR.

Allen have had a great summer exploring Washington state. Check out what we were up to.


A First Step

By: Greg
September 4, 2011 9:28 am | Category: General Interest, Summer, Swimming | 4 Comments | Permalink

Among many first steps towards winter to be made this September, there’s this one that Christian took into the abyss.
The First Step

Getting off this party line, was no fun at all. Zero fun.
No fun at all

Lionel Hutz took the first step too. He’s supposedly going to be telling us soon what his vision quest portends for the snows ahead.
Lionel Hutz on a vision quest

Kristin took the last of the first steps as a plea for cooler weather soon. Let’s hope it was worth it.
Kristin on the zip line

Have fun out there!


I hear Irene (Updated)

August 25, 2011 9:36 am | Category: Weather, WTF | 7 Comments | Permalink

UPDATE:
By now we’ve all seen the terrible damage brought by Irene’s rains. I’m not going to dwell on that. 5 to 10 inches of rain is a terribly destructive amount of water. We’ll recover but it’s going to be hard. For the sake of closing the loop I have posted Irene’s rainfall totals below. Sadly they were right inline with what I thought was going to happen. Floyd was a perfect match.

It could get pretty wooly this weekend as Hurricane Irene moves up the N.E. Coast. Currently the clear model consensus is for Irene to make landfall somehwere between Raritan Bay (NYC) and Cape Cod as well developed and powerful tropical cyclone.
See:

Now….I’m not going to dwell on the issues caused by powerful landfalling hurricanes and I’m certainly NOT going to say “well it’s only a Cat 2…don’t worry.” By this point we all should move away from the Saffir-Simpson scale. I believe it doesn’t accurately capture the power of hurricanes. A much better measure is Integrated Kenetic Energy. Read about it here“> If you live along the coast, a river or in a low lying area near the coast make a smart decision.

Instead, what I’d like to focus on is the potential for some serious rains in the North Country and the potential for new slides.
Roughly 12 years ago, Hurricane Floyd moved into the NE and delivered a mega dose of rain to the ADK and Greens.
Here is Flyod’s track:

Notice anything similar with the predicted track of Miss Irene? You should.
Now here is the rainfall resulting from floyd:

Here is one of the latest model outputs for total rainfall for Irene:

Again…notice anything similar? You should.

UPDATED RAINFALL TOTALS

So what does (DID) this add up to. Maybe more of these: (Yes it did. Working on documenting them now).


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